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| | Oise River - Britannica Concise |
 | | Pontoise - town, capital (since 1964) of Val-d'Oise département, Paris région, northern France, on the right bank of the Oise River, northwest of Paris. |
 | | Oise River - river, rising in Belgium in the Ardennes mountains southeast of Chimay. |
 | | Picardy - Région (pop., 2003 est.: 1,869,386), encompassing the northern French départements of Oise, Somme, and Aisne and roughly coextensive with the historical region of Picardy. |
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